Campus & Community

Liliane Weissberg, a professor of German comparative literature in the School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania has been awarded the USC Shoah Foundation 2015-16 Rutman Teaching Fellowship. The award is offered annually by the Spielberg Foundation to a Penn faculty member to teach about the Holocaust.

The University was recently honored as the Corporate Advocate of the Year by the African American Chamber of Commerce of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. This year’s conference theme, “Building Businesses. Creating Legacies,” highlighted programs that helped businesses grow, hire, and contribute to the region’s economic development.

On Sunday, June 21, families can travel back in time to the Victorian age while experiencing a fantastic future at the 2015 STEAMpunk Expo, held at the Morris Arboretum.

Four student teams from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM) in the School of Engineering and Applied Science took home top prizes at the Cornell Cup, a college-level embedded design competition created to empower student teams to become the inventors of the newest innovative applic

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), 23.5 million people in the United States live in food deserts—urban neighborhoods and rural towns without ready access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food. More than half of these individuals live in low-income households.

Two-and-a-half decades ago, Michaela Majoun accepted a DJ job at the fledgling WXPN 88.5 radio station.

Dear Benny,During the winter months, I don’t mind going to the gym to exercise. But now that the weather is warm, I want to spend more time outside. Are there any outdoor places on campus where I can do activities to stay fit?— In the Great Outdoors

PULITZER FELLOW: Farzana Shah, a master’s student in the School of Nursing, was recently awarded a Pulitzer International Student Reporting Fellowship from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit organization

This past semester, Anne Tiballi taught a freshman seminar in Penn’s Department of Anthropology in the School of Arts & Sciences.

Sergeant Hall, formerly located at 34th and Chestnut streets, was built in 1900 as an upscale apartment building named The Essex. Penn purchased the building in 1924 and opened its first dorm for women during a decade when the number of women students at the University was on the rise.